Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that does" (cited in Lt. Governor's Newsletter, Diversity Conference, Spring, 1996). Mead's quote made quite an impact as I read it in a newsletter shortly after we had had a dynamic experience at Cedar Falls High School last winter. Twelve hundred students participated in small group "dialogues" led by peer facilitators. One hundred students volunteered their time to be trained to facilitate these discussions. This small group of students set a precedent at our high school that "it was definitely not cool at CFHS to be insensitive to diversity issues or related concerns." Later in the spring, students from Cedar Falls High School, along with Waterloo East, West, Expo, and Union (LaPorte City) High Schools spent a day at Hawkeye Community College at a Youth Equity Leadership conference. The students were again facilitators of small group discussion dealing with "Communication Amongst Diverse Student Population."
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
91
Last Page
93
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1997 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Susan M.
(1997)
"Youth Ethnic Dialogues Provide Base for Community Understanding,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 30.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol7/iss1/30
